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Abortion in Norway is available on demand within the first twelve weeks of gestation, measured as 11 weeks and 6 days from the first day of the last menstrual period. [1] After this 12-week time limit, a request must be submitted to a special medical assessment board that will determine whether an abortion will be granted.
[7] [8] The Bolsheviks saw abortion as a social evil created by the capitalist system, which left women without the economic means to raise children, forcing them to perform abortions. The Soviet state initially preserved the tsarist ban on abortion, which treated the practice as premeditated murder.
Country Rate per . 1,000 women per year Number of abortions per year Year Age range Greenland 84.7 870 2022 [7] [8]: 17–64 Vietnam 64.0 1,630,000 2019 [9]: 15–49 Madagascar
It is estimated that around 90 million women of reproductive age live in countries where abortion is completely illegal.
With Roe v. Wade overturned, some people may have to travel to get an abortion. See where it's legal and banned.
Sweden was the first liberal democracy in Europe to legalise abortion, in 1938; this move was followed by the introduction of limited abortion laws in Denmark in 1939, [35] Finland in 1950, [36] and Norway in 1964. More liberal abortion laws were introduced in Norway in 1964, Finland in 1970, and Denmark and Iceland in 1973.
Colombia: Universities opened to women. [137] Luxembourg: A ban against firing women teachers after marriage. [41] Some states in the Americas: The Convention on the Nationality of Women was adopted in 1933 by the Pan American Union in Montevideo, Uruguay. [138] It was the first international treaty ever adopted concerning women's rights.
This is who is affected by abortion legislation.